REDWHITEANDBLUE wrote:
Be interesting to see if injuries reduce especially the more serious ones like ACL etc
Don’t think they will, well not ACL’s which are not related to fitness.
Imho we were never especially unfit, our problem was application. The improvements this guy gains will probably be tiny, but at this level tiny improvements can be the difference.
With that comes confidence and self belief and the odd extra try is scored and others saved and tight games are won. Ninth place suddenly becomes 6th and so on. It’s pretty much what happened in 2004 and when Kear first took over.